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On behalf of ACEC Arkansas and ASPE, I am proud to announce we are accepting registrations for the 2016-2017 Arkansas Engineering Emerging Leaders Program! The Arkansas Engineering Emerging Leaders Program is an eight session program that features curriculum focusing on right-brain thinking – the people skills associated with business management and the creative, visionary skills required of effective leaders.

Qualifications-Based Selection Resource Center

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In 1972, Congress adopted the Brooks Act (P.L. 95-582), requiring the use of Qualifications-Based Selection (QBS) for the procurement of architect and engineering services. The use of QBS ensures that federal agencies — and the taxpayer — receive highly technical architect and engineering services from the most experienced and most qualified firms at a fair and reasonable cost. QBS is used by all federal agencies, 46 state governments, and many localities throughout the country. It works because: